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Headword:
Archaios
Adler number: alpha,4074
Translated headword: old-fashioned
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] someone/something ancient.[1]
Isocrates in the
Panegyricus [says] "speaking old-fashionedly", that is, using rather archaic words.[2] But
Demosthenes in [the]
Philippics [sc. is found] saying "they behaved so old-fashionedly, or rather, like good citizens";[3] he chose [this word] instead of simply.
Archaios: ho palaios. Isokratês men en tôi Panêgurikôi to archaiotropôs eipein, toutestin archaioterois onomasi chrêsthai: Dêmosthenês de en tois Philippikois eipôn: houtôs de archaiôs eichon, mallon de politikôs: anti tou haplôs elaben.
Notes:
From Harpokration: see below.
[1] cf. already
alpha 4073.
[2]
Isocrates 4.8 (web address 1), which in fact uses
a)rxai/ws, the adverb cognate with the present headword
a)rxai=os. The Suda has attributed to
Isocrates another adverb,
a)rxaiotro/pws, which comes from ancient commentary on the passage: see Harpokration s.v.
a)rxai/ws.
[3]
Demosthenes 9.48 (web address 2).
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 10 October 2000@09:30:41.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (added note and keyword; cosmetics) on 25 August 2002@10:17:28.
William Hutton (cosmetics, modified translation and notes, added links and keyword, set status) on 27 June 2003@06:45:45.
David Whitehead (another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics) on 30 June 2011@09:45:53.
David Whitehead on 1 September 2015@02:52:33.
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